The parish of

POUGHILL

The Online Parish Clerk for Poughill is Judith Upton, who can be contacted by Email.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCen at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), GenUKI and the LDS website, Library section. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Poughill entries from the Post Office Directory, 1856 and the Post Office Directory, 1873 are available online. For further information, see the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories or GenUKI.

OTHER:

Transcriptions are available on this website for -

Poughill entries from The Cornwall Muster of 1569

The Protestation Returns 1641

The Hearth Tax Returns for Michelmas 1664.

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52.
2. 1852/53.
3. 1856/57.
4. 1864/65.

Some Monumental Inscriptions.

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Poughill can be located at coordinates I - 10.

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Kilkhampton, Stratton and Bude Haven.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Poughill is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 348). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.